I wanted a "cool" job like firefighter, cop, or astronaut.

As I got older, I realized I didn't want to die in a fire or get shot by a drug dealer, and the US' space program isn't coming back anytime soon.

I will own and operate my own restaurant. I figure I wll start out with something concrete, like a burger joint/sports bar. Then from there if the fates allow I will branch out and hopefully start a restaurant/food empire.

My ideal job isn't too dreamy. It's not like some kids, like a rapper or a professional football player. I prefer to stay on the realistic scale.

My ideal job is in Psychiatry. I want to diagnose people's mental illnesses, help them cope, prescribe their mental medication. I know it's weird to 'want' to do these things, but it seems interesting. The human mind is something to be explored. I want to pursue a career as a Psychiatric Therapist if that's the correct term. Not just a therapist, that's too general. I want to talk to people who have issues, so I can help them. Maybe the correct term is Psychiatrist, I don't know.

Plus, it seems like an easy job. You just ask things like "How does that make your feel?" and "Does this happen often?" and things like that. It's quite a lustrous career, you make tons of money, no uniform and you can even be your own boss. But I wouldn't mind working for an umbrella corporation in psychiatry.

Well, that one at least is relatively easy to achieve. (This is just general advice so ignore if it's not relevant to you.)

Just start blogging about games, hone your skills and practice your writing. When your blog's been going 6 months to a year, start actively promoting it by leaving well-written, on-topic comments on "professional" (or widely-read) blogs where your profile information links back to your own blog. Regularly write to the letters pages of magazines - it's a great way to get noticed if your letters get printed - but again keep the focus on the subject in hand rather than just self-promotion, which is tiresome. Respond to other readers' comments and "get chatting" with the other folks who hang out at the blog/website/forum. Editors soon notice who the regulars are. Get a few business cards printed up with your blog/contact details. Go along to e.g. PAX, Eurogamer Expo, etc. and get chatting with everyone - the people on the stalls, the people milling around - and if someone seems "useful", give them a card. Use social networks, particularly Twitter (which is less formal/intrusive than Facebook).

Basically, after a while of doing that (a year or two - but remember, this is all time you're practicing and improving your writing), people will start to ask you to contribute to whatever they're doing. Be warned: most of it will be unpaid, and that which is paid will be very poorly paid. Journalists - even editors - do not earn much money, and most magazines have only a very few staff writers compared to many ad-hoc contributors (freelancers). You are far more likely to be someone with a full-time job who writes gaming articles on the side than you are to be a full-time game critic. Also, companies are cutting back on freebies and you are far more likely to be invited to somewhere to play the game on-site than to be given a free copy of the game.

Well, that's how to get into doing it, which is the first of your problems. Just watch the '15Peter20' episode of Nathan Barley to see the reality of what it's like when you get there!

Thanks for the advice,I have been writing some reviews here and there.I have also contacted some people who already have their foot in the door, asking them what it took to get there. Its something I would really love to do as a full time job eventually but I understand how difficult that could be to get there.A friend of mine has an aunt who works at a Gamestop as manger,she really enjoys here job and says it not too difficult. I fI could work my way up to being a manger at a Gamestop while writing gaming articles that would be good enough.

my ideal job would be getting paid to do nothing. i just want to get paid to sit at home and watch tv or play video games.

i'd also like enough money to buy an island somewhere and declare it a country.

So did I, until I realised they get paid next to nothing. Then I went into law, and that kinda collapsed on me, but I still have my degree. Now I just want to do whatever admin job pays enough and doesn't kill me.

I want to be a doctor. Not sure where I want to specialise but pretty sure I don't want to be a GP.

When I was younger, I wanted to be a criminal defense lawyer, but for the past eight years (I think,) I've wanted to be a surgeon, either plastic or orthopedic. Now that I'm starting to get to the end of my high school career, I'm doing all that I can to make that a reality by volunteering at my local hospital and I just applied for an internship that my family doctor referred me to.

My dream job though would be a hedge fund manager, or other high-up hedge fund job, but I don't have any desire or the ass-kissing abilities to climb the corporate ladder.

I would like to be a programmer, but I do dream of playing The Doctor on Doctor Who.

Too bad I'm American....

When I was a kid I wanted to be an F1 pilot.

Then I realized I wanted to make cartoons, but the cartoons in my country svcked hard so I decided to move to the US and work for Disney. (like it's so easy, lol)

Shortly I found out that Disney's new films weren't nearly as good as the old classics, so I dropped that one and decided to make video games. (pre-teen years)

Then I dropped that one too, deciding gaming should stay a hobby for me... And said I was going to make films. I even wrote drafts of my so-called future products.

Now I no longer have dreams and I'm trying to enter Law school...

Definite solicitor in the making.

I wanted to be a paleontologist as a kid since I was obsessed with dinosaurs. Now, I'm not too sure. Something psychology-related -- possibly a counsellor or something. I don't know, though. I get bored easily and I can't see myself holding down just one career for a long period of time.

Wow high-five

When I was a kid I wanted to design Christmas cards for Hallmark. Would still quite like to do that actually.

But if I won the lottery tomorrow I'd open up a little bakery.

Right now my ideal job would be one that is close to me and one that will ACTUALLY hire me even though I don't have work experience. Can't even be a freaking phone operator without requiring 2 to 3 years of experience. Heck I probably need a degree and 5 years of experience to wipe a baby's behind at a daycare center. :facepalm:

Though a nice ideal job for me would be a scientific researcher or assistant researcher taking down notes, setting up equipment, etc... getting to do my own lab tests here and there.

I have experience in that industry, and believe me, you don't. You don't want to sit there in July adding snow into summertime photos and editing golliwogs out of vintage pictures of teddies.

Yeah so many jobs require more qualifications than they did even a decade ago. I can remember my old school teachers saying they applied for teacher training straight out of university. Now you need to take a whole bunch of other teaching qualifications on top of your degree.

Can't really remember what I wanted to be when I was younger. But right now the goal is to be an architect. It'll be a few more years til I can get licensed, but I am on my way.

Did some job searching yesterday and having a HS degree, background in programming, an AA degree and other various experiences from college the only thing I found was a "Warehouse Worker" for the CIA. They wanted a person that had a HS or GED equivalent to work loading/unloading boxes. All other jobs wanted Bachelor degrees, Masters Degrees, PH.D.s, and 3 to 5 years of experience. Haven't checked the classifieds yet, but even then I don't have my hopes up. Guess I could try for that job as a grounds keeper at the local CC near me however they want 1 year + of yard maintenance work experience. (Shakes Head why do you need experience for watering the grass and knowing how to cut it?)

You think you can't portray the Doctor because you're American? David Tennant & Sylvester McCoy are both Scottish and they played the Doctor.

Current job, more money, more *nix servers, less Windows servers

Or at least less Windows servers until Windows gets SSH built in and MinWin is finished.

Forget about a degree and experience, you also need a detailed security disclosure check to work with kids.

Eh I don't really have a dream job, any kind of job to me would still be a job..with all it's stresses and what not. But there are better jobs than others out there and I like mine currently so I'll go with that.

I wouldn't mind being a professional golfer though, or getting paid to chase storms...or doing something in the astronomical field.

You know some of these experience doesn't really need a paid job. From doing volunteer works, to show that you've dipped yourself into the society and do well to work with others. Any job within 1 year experience are good for fresh graduates. Just show them you've reached out to the society and you've been doing whatever you could to blend in. No boss would want to hire a basemant kid.